The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-17
IN BRIEF.
Conslsd from yarious souroaA
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


National drill by the militia Of all the
States in Washin gton.
The illness of Mr. w. w. Corcoran, the
venerable philanthropist Of Washington,
draws attention to his many munihcent
gifts to charitable objsc 1t is said these
have aggregated quite seven million dol
lars altogether his public gifts alone, in
sums ranging from $1,000 upwards,
amounting to soma. hing over IS, ,000, 900.
THE reception of L lltoE OBrieu at the
Hoffman House. New York, on the night
Of the 7th was a bri liant affair. Leading
citizens united in the ovation thus ten
dered under the auspices Of the Irish Ia
tional League aud the Hoffman House
committee Of the Irish parliamentary
fund. O'Brien sailed for home on the
Adriatic on the Sth.
THE health OF the German Emperor and
Crown Prince is reported as improved.
THE annual meeting OF the Actors fund
was held at New York on the 9TH A let
ter from Presi lent Cleveland was read
accepting an honorary membership in the
fund.
HENRY STANLEY is said to be making
good progress through Africa to the relief
Of Emin Bey.
OK the sth James G. Blaine and William
O'Brien sailed for Europe. They took two
steamers.
JOuN BRIGHT has written a letter, in
which he says: 'Mr. Gladstone, while in
Wales, spoke as though there was no
Province of Ulster ana no Protestant or
loyal Catholic population in Ireland. 1t is
sad to see so great minister descend to
articles so transparent to deceive his
countrymen.n
SECRETARY WHITNEY has ordered a court
Of inquiry TO ascertain the circumstances
of the death of Lieutenant Clarke, on
board the United States steamship Iro-
quOis.
THE Secretary Of the Navy took a par ty
Of personal friends from New York and
Washington to Annapolis by special car,
on the 9th to witness the closing exer-
cises of the Naval Academy.
THE statement that Mr. Jay Gould was
seriously i'll at Fortress Monroe was
without foundation. "Jay Gould, Mrs.
Gould and party Of friends" were at the
Riggs House in Washington, on the Sth, all
we'll
GEORGE J. GOULD, having recently been
elected president of the Pacific Mail, is
the Youngest man that ever held so i'm
portant an office 1t is a novelty in Wall
street to sec a man of twenty-five at the
head of a corporation Of so, 100000.
OK the Sth Mrs. Mary Outwater White,
daughter of the late Pete Gu twater, of
Syracuse, n. Y, and wife of ex President
Andrew ID. White Of Cornell University,
fell dead after leaving the breakf asst
room at her home in Ithaca, N. Y, Of pa
ralysis of the heart She was ffty-seven
years old.
IT is announced that ex-senator E. h
Rollins has withdrawn from the senate
rial canvass in New Hampshire, and will
not be a candidate in the caucus It is
claimed that a majority of his supporters
will go to Chandler.
TIE Constitutional prohibitOry amend
ment was defeated in the Massachusetts
House on the Sth by vote of 139 to "a,
not the necessary twO-thlrds.
REPORTS from Berlin are to the effect
that the German Emperor's health is be-
coming alarmingly feeble.
PRINCE ARMAND DE POLIGNAo declares
that General lie Flo has told only the
truth in his assertion that Germany was
restrained by Russia from attacking
France in 1875.
CHARLES d. KEEP, editor Of the Val
Street Ne'ss, died en- the morning of the 9th
at Long Branch, N. J.
THE Earl of Winchelsea and Noting
ham died on the oh. He was seventy
two years old.
THE Grant Monument Association has
issued a circular calling for designs for a
monument or memorial building to be
erected upon the site Of General Grants 5
tomb.
Hon. JoHN II. EWING died at his resi-
dence in Washington, Pa, on the 9th, aged
MANGNN NGdISs MAIQE Ewing M1h an AAGAG
Of James g. Blaine, and the oldest citizen
OF the town.
AARON l.. SrrM, one of the best-known
Colored men in Pennsylvania, died al
Reading on the 0th aged seventy-seven
years. He was prominent in slavery days
as one Of the underground railroad
leaders in assisting fugitive slaves to es-
cape
TIE statement that mike Grace" who
was reported killed by Apaches in re-
cent dispatch from TucIon, Ariz., was
Mr Michael Z. Grace, brother of ex-MayOr
Grace, Of New York, Is not true. At the
Office Of W. r. Grace a. Co, It is stated
that Mr.. Michael 2. Grace is now in Eu-
rope.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, J. J. Astor aud
d. w. James, the banker, have each sub
soribed 90 600 to the fund for the erec-
tion of a great Episcopal cathedral in New
York.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MAYNARD has an
nounced that he will give q hearing on
tho 18th aud 18th inst, to persons inter
ested in the classifi alton of Sumatra
leaf tobacco, and on the 23i instant to
persons interested in the Classification Of
iron wire rods.
CoRREsPoNDENCE of Secretary Bayard
and Minister West regarding assisted
irish immigration, has been made public.
EBEN OLIVER, who jumped from train
near AtchisOn, Kas., n month ago, has
been found in the woods, crazy and almost
dead.
THE yacht Atalanta with jay Gould on
board sailed from Fortress Monroe, Va,
on tho 10th.
AT Annapolis, Md, on the evening OF
the 10Th, Secretary Whitney presented
each OF the forty-four Naval Academy
graduates with his diploma. commencing
with Cadet Stocker, the honor man.
l.. No. T,vN~gr grr
preme Court on the 10th. gave decision
in the test cases ofthe hotei-keepers hold
ing that they could not sell liquor TO theil
guests with meals on sunday.
THE Secretary Of the Interior has dis
barred Jefferson II. Foxworth, Of Lincoln,
Neb, from practice before the Interior
Department
TnE Postmaster General has issued an
order to the postmaster at Chicago to de-
liver no more registered letters to the
Chicago Fdrna Journal, and cash no more
money orders for IL.
IT is officially announced at Berlin that
Emperor William, in consequence Of an
abdominal cramp, has been confined tc
his bed for the I tst few DAYS. He is also
suffering from oatarrhal affection of the
eyends,
EERR LALANCE, a memI er OF the Ger
man Re ichstag, from Williamson circle
was order ed on the 10th to leave Alsace
within twenty flour no urs. Herr J.. lance
an active protector, and is charged
with having su pported the French Patri
otic League.
THE Cousul-General at Havana has re
ported 10 the state Department thai
Publa. the American citizen imprisoned
at that plaoe wiz be tried in the Superior
Court during The present month, the tria
being hasten ed on account OF the inter
cession Of this Government.
UNITED STATES CoSsUL CAMPBELL has
reported to the State Department his ar
rival and reception Il his Tost Of duty
Tamative, NADIA gascar, and he presenta
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